A 24-year-old North Bergen man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Jersey City girl on Monday and he was arrested yesterday after he was spotted hanging around the girl's home by her mother, officials said.

The mother flagged down police near the family's Central Avenue home at 11:30 p.m. yesterday and pointed at Alex Ruiz of 85th Street, saying "Police, my daughter was raped by that man!" reports said.

Ruiz took off running but was caught on Fourth Street in Union City and charged with resisting arrest and obstructing a government function, reports said.

The victim told police that on Monday morning, she and Ruiz took a bus to Ruiz's home where he took her clothes off and repeatedly asked her to have sex but she refused, North Bergen Police Capt. Gerald Sanzari said. The girl eventually consented, Sanzari said.

After the alleged sexual assault, the girl went to her father's home in Union City and the father called the mother after seeing hickeys on her neck, Sanzari said.

Yesterday the mother and victim drove around North Bergen looking for Ruiz but when they spotted him on Kennedy Boulevard he ran away, Sanzari said.

Last night the mother and daughter spotted Ruiz sitting across the street from their home, reports said.

Ruiz was booked at Jersey City's North District Police Station and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Special Victim's Unit is investigating the incident.